374 research outputs found
Don’t elect him, he’s unelectable!
No full textLorna Finlayson on hidden agendas, being realistic, and Jeremy Corby
Review of An Introduction to Feminism by Lorna Finlayson.
No full textReview of An Introduction to Feminism by Lorna Finlayson
The political is political : conformity and the illusion of dissent in contemporary political philosophy
No full textNobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series of specific debates and arguments, Finlayson analyzes the way in which apparently neutral methodological devices such as “charitable interpretation” and “constructive criticism” function so as to protect against challenges to the status quo.
At each stage, Finlayson demonstrates that political philosophy is suffering from a complex process of “de-politicization.” Even in cases where it appears that the dominant framework of liberal political philosophy is being strongly challenged—as, for example, in the case of the ‘realist’ critique of “ideal theory”—this book argues that the debate is set up in such a way as to impose strict limits on the kind of dissent that is possible. Only by dragging these hidden presuppositions into the foreground can we arrive at a clear-eyed appreciation of such debates, and perhaps look beyond the artificially constricted landscape in which they seek to confine us
Rules of the Game?
No full textReview of Katrina Forrester, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy. Princeton University Press: Princeton 2019. 401 pp, 978 0 6911 6308
The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy, by Lorna Finlayson
No full textLa prima immagine che il lettore incontra nel volume di Lorna Finlayson mostra una veduta aerea di un ponte londinese sul quale la polizia sta compiendo un’operazione di kettling. Il kettling è una tattica delle forze dell’ordine per il contenimento e la dissuasione delle manifestazioni di massa che consiste nell’isolare un corteo in uno spazio perimetrato e impedire a qualsiasi partecipante di abbandonare la folla per periodi che possono protrarsi anche per diverse ore. Non pare azzardato ravvisare in tale immagine una metafora della funzione che, secondo l’argomentare del libro, svolgerebbe la filosofia politica contemporanea
Lorna Finlayson on political philosophy and immigration: a reply
No full textReplying to Finlayson (2020), I defend analytic political philosophy from the charge that, by ignoring their historical context, it fails to grasp what is really at stake in the case of issues such as immigration. I also defend my own work on that topic from the charge that it is implicitly racist by virtue of using arguments capable of being appropriated by racists
Poem by Lorna Pietsch
No full textNewspaper Article - Poem by Lorna PietschAlberta Women's Institutes; AWI Collection: I was talked into attending
1 a meeting.
For women calledfyw. p.
I haven't looked back tor
one minute,
And love it till this very
day.
It's run with a wonderful
spirit,
Of Godliness, honour and
peace.
With contacts all the world
over,
Like India, Paris and
Greece.
The Song of Peace has a
meaning,
Which stirs something in
my heart.
For it holds our world's
women closer,
Though many miles apart.
With these words you know
how I think.
And feel about ^ jSt. A. W//
I hope you all have the
same feeling,
Today and every day.
Lorna Pietsc
Lorna Sage writing: a reader's view
No full textLorna Sage was a British literary critic and university professor whose writing for public media during the last three decades of the 20th century contributed to the postwar dialogue on feminist literary criticism. Lorna Sage Writing: A Reader's View presents an interpretive history of her writing, organized around the time line of her childhood years, her entrance into a professional world unavailable to women in previous generations, and her thirty years of writing criticism, entertaining, scholarly, and focused on fiction and rhetoric by and about women. To this day, her writing creates as a bridge between the author and the reader, informing and encouraging both to meet somewhere between
Lorna Sage writing: a reader's view
No full textLorna Sage was a British literary critic and university professor whose writing for public media during the last three decades of the 20th century contributed to the postwar dialogue on feminist literary criticism. Lorna Sage Writing: A Reader's View presents an interpretive history of her writing, organized around the time line of her childhood years, her entrance into a professional world unavailable to women in previous generations, and her thirty years of writing criticism, entertaining, scholarly, and focused on fiction and rhetoric by and about women. To this day, her writing creates as a bridge between the author and the reader, informing and encouraging both to meet somewhere between
Voz y verso en la poesía de Lorna Crozier
No full textThis essay is a biographical sketch of the Canadian poet Lorna Crozier (Saskatchewan 1948) and a description of which are, in my opinion, her more significant poetical procedures. The analysis, which conclusions I present here, is based primarily on the translation labor I carried out of 60 of her poems. It has as main sources the very texts of the author as well as a series of personal conversations I had with her about her literary career and her aesthetics conceptions
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